Does shadcn CLI provide telemetry?

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Matias Perez
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Does the shadcn CLI provide any telemetry mechanism?

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Claude Haiku 4.5
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Perfect! These are just unrelated code comments about path segments. Now I have a complete picture.

##Answer

No, the shadcn CLI does not provide any telemetry mechanism.

Based on my analysis of the source code in the packages/shadcn directory, here's what I found:

  1. No telemetry dependencies: The package.json contains no telemetry-related packages like PostHog, Segment, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Sentry, Amplitude, or similar services.

  2. No telemetry code: A comprehensive search of the CLI source code found no telemetry tracking functions, event logging, or analytics code.

  3. No environment variables: There are no telemetry-related environment variables (like TELEMETRY, NO_TELEMETRY, DO_NOT_TRACK, etc.) in the codebase.

  4. No documentation: Neither the README nor the changelog mention telemetry.

The shadcn CLI is built with the following core dependencies:

  • commander - for CLI argument parsing
  • prompts - for interactive prompts
  • zod - for schema validation
  • Various file system and code transformation utilities

But nothing for data collection or telemetry. The tool is purely focused on adding components to your project locally without any tracking or analytics capabilities.


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